Even amid his busy schedule, Kang Hyun did not hesitate to spend money and time controlling Seoyoon’s actions, even though he belittled her.

After Kang Hyun, who didn’t keep the promise to meet her, turned off the location-tracking-enabled phone and spent the night out, the next day, two neatly dressed guards stood in front of the house.

“I messed up, I admit it, but take those people away from outside!”

Ignoring Seoyoon’s outburst, Kang Hyun, nonchalantly, put on his suit jacket and walked to the front door.

Seoyoon, who had already shed a lot of tears, hurriedly followed him with moist eyes full of anxiety.

“Oppa, Oppa……. I didn’t go far; I was just at Yeonju Unni’s place. Just once……”

Seoyoon desperately grabbed the end of Kang Hyun’s suit.

A neighborhood cafe where he frequently goes to have friendly conversations with the owner, a familiar part-time worker welcoming him with a smile at the nearby convenience store, and a bookstore where he occasionally stops to sit by the window and read a book on a sunny day.

He didn’t want to be in a situation where he had to get permission for every short route that he hadn’t bothered to contact until now.

It was Taekanghyun who broke the promise first.

Although his appearance apologizing for the mistake was pitiful, it was inevitable that one would cling to the regretful side.

“For a month.”

“I don’t want to!”

“I said for a month; don’t do anything.”

Kang Hyun brushed off Seoyoon’s tearful hand.

Around his eyes, which were darker than ever, blood vessels stood out.

For someone, it might be only 24 hours, but for Kang Hyun, who lost Seoyoon for the first time in his life, it was a day as long as 24 days.

He couldn’t accept that Seoyoon, who could predict his own reaction well, cut off contact by playing the piano and being impudent.

The cause of her doing such a thing was not important.

“I’m your possession anyway. You’ve got everything, oppa. Do you really have to do this to me?”

Holding the doorknob, Kang Hyun turned to face Seoyoon.

Looking at Seoyoon with eyes full of resentment, Kang Hyun, for the first time, stared deeply into her eyes, making her eyelids tremble.

“You put me on the edge of a cliff.”

“It was just one day.”

“Yeah, not an hour but a day. Do you think I was in my right mind during the day you disappeared like a ghost? I stayed up all night wondering what happened to you!”

Startled by the suddenly raised voice, Seoyoon’s shoulders twitched, and Kang Hyun took a deep breath.

The exhausted look around his eyes was forceful.

After gritting his teeth for a moment and glancing at Seoyoon, Kang Hyun closed the door with a loud noise and left the house.

Seoyoon, who sat down in despair, buried her face between her knees, which she had raised with difficulty.

It looked no different from Kang Hyun’s beaten sneakers.

With trembling shoulders, Seoyoon, who shook off her sorrow, opened her bloodshot eyes and headed to the bedroom.

That way, several days passed.

Unable to endure Kang Hyun’s deeds, Seoyoon cut off her food and drink.
Even without being overly attentive, a fragile body that missed a few meals honestly fainted and opened its eyes on the hospital bed.

“Yuna, don’t do this.”

“…….”

“Oppa made a mistake.”

Kang Hyun, wiping his pale face with his hand, admitted his mistake.

Although he sent a driver or a guard for security purposes when he received news of going out, he hadn’t been monitoring people since that day.

Seeing that the henchmen under Taeseok Jung Chairman, who came to end the relationship, didn’t catch him, it was evident.

However, things didn’t improve.

The long wait and short meetings remained the same, and Seoyoon slowly withered away.

One day, Kang Hyun suddenly noticed Seoyoon’s emaciated arms and prominently defined bone structure around her eyes.

“Don’t you want to eat?”

“No, not really.”

“Is there anything you want to do?”

“No.”

“Any place you want to go?”

Even though he wouldn’t listen to anything.

Seoyoon vaguely tilted her head.

“Why nothing?”

“Because there’s nothing.”

Kang Hyun stared at Seoyoon, who turned away with closed eyes.

During his absence, Seoyoon’s talkative nature, which used to complain about what she did during his absence, had rapidly decreased.

She didn’t demand that he make time to go to the zoo this weekend and the amusement park the next weekend.

She didn’t ask him if he wanted to roll around and fish at the house in Jeju that he gave her as a gift. She didn’t envy the splendid hotel and resort photos that someone posted on SNS.

Perhaps she vaguely felt at that time.

That something was going wrong.

In the morning, Kang Hyun, who woke up first, quietly looked at Jianne, who was sleeping with her head on his arm.

Fortunately, Jianne was looking towards him, so he could fully appreciate her peacefully sleeping face.

Because she had opened the curtains throughout the house, the sunlight pouring through the large glass window created thin and thick lines throughout the bedroom.